Elton John 1975-76

[Luzzly]

I definitely saw Elton John on his Yellow Brick Road tour in the Albert Hall, across the road from where I worked in the Royal Garden Hotel. But when I look this up, he doesn't seem to have played there. But I was there!! I know he played at Wembley Stadium in 75, cos I was there also. But surely my memory can't be wrong for the past 45 years! Can anyone help?

[JimF]

You definitely didn't, I'm afraid. For a start, the Yellow Brick Road tour was 73/74. In 75/76, Elton was already on the Captain Fantastic tour.

He first played The Albert Hall in 1970 and not again until 1987.

[Luzzly]

WHAT IS GOING ON??!! I remember going to work the next day, and talking about it! Where in London, and when, was his Yellow Brick Road gigs? Anyone? Please?

[JimF]

The Hammersmith Odeon, The Royal Festival Hall and Wembley.

Royal Festival Hall, maybe? 18th May.

[Luzzly]

Thanks JimF for trying to help. I know I was somewhere. Can't have been Festival Hall, cos I'd already left London by then. As far as I know I've never been to the Hammersmith Odeon. I think I'll crawl back into my cupboard now! Can't believe how many people I've told through the years that I saw Elton John in the Albert Hall. Never again.

[andy-hughes]

Luzzly - it happens.

Rececntly, I have been taken on as a cruise liner guest speaker, talking about my music journalist career.

Research has led me to dust off my scrap books, and in the course of going through them, I find I have seen Sinead O'Connor in concert, and a David Bowie gig in Birmingham, and I have no memory of either of them!!!

Age is a terrible thing!!!!!!

[Luzzly]

Very scary Andy! But at least you can now tell people you've seen them. Even though the memory has gone!

[andy-hughes]

Luzzly - that's true.

If I had known my career was going to last this long - forty-one years and counting - I'd have kept a detailed diary and written a book.